Media outlets access enhanced multi-platform content at no charge, with alerts when we have new content on issues or from regions you may select. Once we receive the filled out form below, you'll receive a message with the passcode/s. Welcome!

*These fields are required

*Media Outlet name

*Media Outlet City/State

Contact name

Contact phone

*Email address or fax #

*Media Outlet type

Additional (beyond the state you are located in) content that you would like to receive

Newscasts

PNS Daily Newscast - May 24, 2018

Jared Kushner is finally granted his security clearance. Also on our nationwide rundown: A new lawsuit seeks the release of a gay man from ICE detention in Pennsylvania; and protecting an Arizona water source for millions near Phoenix.

Daily Newscasts

Groups Call Ore. Primary Voter-Turnout Reports "Misleading"

Primary Day in KY: "Our Future Depends on Our Vote"

Native American Candidates Rising in 2018 Elections

IL Lawmakers to Vote on Equality Issues

Keystone Pipeline Protest Today in Great Falls

Revolutionary Medical Research Technology Coming to Northwest

Groups Call Ore. Primary Voter-Turnout Reports "Misleading"

In the Market for an Electric Car? Time Running Out on Wash. Tax Break

Legislature Looks at Mapping Campaign Spending Money Trails

January 18, 2011

CASPER, Wyo. - One of the items on the Wyoming Legislature's "to-do" list is a result of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the "Citizens United" case, related to corporations and direct spending in elections. Current Wyoming law that prohibits corporations and unions from direct spending has to change, and a state Senate committee looks at the options today.

Dan Neal, executive director of the Equality State Policy Center, says Wyoming has a strong tradition of requiring public information about spending. He says that can continue, if a public reporting requirement is added to the proposal currently on the table.

"Let's make sure we know where the money's coming from, so that the spending by corporations and others would be more transparent."

Neal explains that if the state law doesn't include specifics on reporting, a company, even one from another country, can set up a dummy nonprofit organization with a misleading name and hide behind that name.

"Then, contribute money under that name – and the way the bill is written right now, that's all they would have to say. We want them to have to report what the corporation itself has contributed."

Disclosure amendments are being debated in the Senate Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee.